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Ditto! Grest stuff Luke!

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Thank you!

Agreed, this was my favorite episode because we heard more about intent and gear selection..but also saw the BTS and the final spots. Great stuff!

It’s nice when it all comes together:)

Thank you, Brandon! Good people, gear, weather, and food equals quality outcome:)

Yes! Roy!! Hope to see you on a job before the summer is gone:)

It was a good team! Thank you, Jayson.

I’m glad you found it helpful. Returning the ❤️!

Yup. Once in a while the stars align:)

@@meetthegaffer I did a 2 camera shoot yesterday, and the other shooter was Howard Shack. Howard used to work in S.F. and remembers you. We're in Seattle.

Fun! I love all the production folks I’ve met from Seattle:)

I’m glad you found it... welcome!

Your welcome, Joe!

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Your welcome, Johan!

Glad you found us Dominic!

I’m glad you found it helpful!

Your welcome, Austin!

Everybody loves your content... well, except for the one thumbs down, but that’s probably something I said:) You are always a pleasure to work for! All the best out there.

In what way is your life being saved? :)

Right on, sir.

👊🏻It’s worth it for comments like that:)

You are most welcome:)

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Would be good... but I may not get to it soon. It’s easier when it’s connected to a job! If someone else out there wants to take that on though...

Right?!!

Now if I can just figure out a proper End Screen...

It’s gotta be the right putt-putt:)

@@meetthegaffer when using a 7000 like that and lets say your running all HMI's, no tungsten, then does it make sense to just always be in 220 so you can run more amperage?

I don’t know about more amps, but it’s often more efficient as your not breaking out the amperage into individual 20A circuits. Instead you are making all of the power available to the 240V connector.

Ha, ha! You crack me up, man:)

Hi Tyler, As with so many creative/craft questions, it often depends on a lot more than an either/or choice between bouncing or going direct through diffusion. If we have the space, budget, time, and power... and it fits the purpose/script, I would usually opt for a book light, which uses both the bounce and diffusion, but uses indirect rather than direct light. That said, people say a 360 Skypanel direct is like a book light in that it’s large and soft... so yeah, it depends: too many variables to pick a side until you know what the scenario is, I’m afraid:)

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Sorry, I really have no idea:)

I’m probably not the right guy for that, because I no longer have a 100c and don’t know anyone with a 120d. My apologies!

Yes... we were a little undergunned, but it fit the constraints:)

It’s a light from behind and off to the side that adds a separating edge of light to a person creating separation from the background, similar to providing an “outline” of the subject.

@@meetthegaffer got it, thanks for the reply! Love your channel

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I think it was an Arri ballast. By going 240V we are essentially splitting the amperage in half across the two hot legs. I believe the nominal amperage in the spec document is based on a nominal 120V reading even though you’ll most likely run the ballast @240V. Does that help?

@@meetthegaffer it does help I'm looking to purchase a Honda 7000is. I was reading an article about it and the article said that in 240 volt mode the highest amp draw on the 240 plug is 22.8A X 240V =5500w of constant RMS power. With surge Peak power of 7000w for a short period of time. If you were able to plug in a 6K ballast running at the best case scenario 25 amps at 240V this would mean the article is incorrect. shedheads.net/honda-eu7000is-generator-review/

@@LeoMarketingEP Well, we tried out two 7K putt-putts on that job. We had a newer one on the first day and it had trouble keeping the light on. The second day, we had an older model and it worked fine, so we were definitely on the edge! In this case it would have been smarter on our part to combine two 7Ks to make sure we had some overhead, because we wanted to be able to run a 6K and a 4K with a 7K and 6500 genny. To me this is similar to people saying they are able to run an M18 on a 2200 genny. This may work with a Power Gems ballast, but with my Arri ballast it does not work. When you're on a job and everyone is waiting for light, it's not good to have to say you have to go smaller because your genny isn't able to work the load. A lot of jobs come together quickly so you do what you can with the pieces that you have. If you are able to spend time planning, I would not trust a 7K genny to run a 6K everytime... we were unlucky the first day and lucky the second day, and we only did what we did because we were pinched on budget and those were the tools readily at hand. Hope that clears things up a little.

@@meetthegaffer Thank you for the Insight that makes it more clear. Also, thank you for taking the time to respond to questions. I appreciate it.

Happy to help! Enjoy genny shopping! I just have a 2K and 3K genny and rent larger ones when the need arises:)

He owns it and loves it:)

Awesome! I’ve been giving serious consideration to it for a feature. The Alexa currently at the top of my list. Thanks!

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